William R. Kenan, Jr. Fellowships at The Kennedy Center

The William R. Kenan Jr. Fellowship at The Kennedy Center, now in its 17th year, seeks to provide emerging theater artists with a wide variety
of experiences bridging their academic training with the professional theater community.
Kennedy Center Fellows are placed on projects with professional companies in Washington,
D.C., including The Shakespeare Theatre, Folger Theatre, Studio Theatre, Theatre J.
Arena Stage and others, and with partner theaters across the country.

Application deadline is Monday, March 11, 2019.

The Kenan Fellowships at The Kennedy Center are open to graduates and current students
of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) undergraduate and graduate
degree programs from the Schools of Drama and Design & Production, who are members
of the classes of 2014-2019. All Design & Production disciplines are eligible, and
directors and actors with strong cross-disciplinary or theatre-in-education interests
will be considered.

In addition to their theater-based practicum, the Kenan Fellows will also be an important
part of an extraordinary cohort of artists in the new and innovative Creative Catalysts
Program, a partnership with the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at UNCSA.
The Creative Catalysts Program is designed to develop and empower artists leaders,
entrepreneurs and innovators to lead, create and make, while engaging the arts and
creative sectors. Goals include fostering arts leaders who can solve business problems
with innovative solutions; developing a strong creative workforce and industry; promoting
local creative enterprise to keep artists in communities; and increasing diversity
among creative leaders and the workforce. Program goals are attained through:

year-long educational and community building opportunities

an online certificate program in artist leadership

mentoring and networking

participation in the annual Creative Catalysts Summit in Winston-Salem, NC, in 2019

William R. Kenan, Jr. Fellowships at The Kennedy Center receive a salary of $700 per
week and reimbursement for moving expenses to and from the Fellowship (up to $500
each way).

Up to five candidates will be selected for a Kenan Fellowship beginning in Fall 2019.
Students and graduates of UNCSA’s high school program are not eligible.